Tick-tack.



W. H. DAVIS.

TICK TACK.

APPLICATION FILED un. s, 190e.

1381291111641 Oct. 20, 1908.

J N I w n i UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

WILLIAM I'I. DAVIS, OF FEDERALSBURG, MARYLAND.

TICK-TACK.

To all whom 'it may concern:

l Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. DAVIS, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Federalsburg, in the county of Caroline and State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tick- Tacks, of which the following is a specification. rlhis invention relates to improvements 1n that species of devices known as ticktacks and the said invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed. In the accompanying drawings, Figure ll is a perspective view of a tick-tack constructed in accordance with my invention, showing the same in use. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on a plane at right angles to that of Fig. 2.

In accordance with my invention, I provide a handle l which has a pair of arms 2 at one end provided with inwardly extending bearings 3. The said handle is here shown as made of a single piece of wire which is doubled and bent to form the hand hold 4 having an eye 5 at its outer end, coils 6 which connect the wire sides of the hand hold together at the point from which the arms 2 extend and the bearings 3 bent to also form hooks 7.

A revoluble element 8, which is here shown as in the shape of a spool having a central drum portion 9 and circular heads 10, is disposed between the arms 2 of the handle and the ends of the` bore ll of said revoluble element o1l drum are engaged by the bearing hooks 7 which extend thereinto as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. i The heads l() are serrated or notched at their periphery as at l2.

A spring 13, which in the practical embodiment of the invention may be a rubber band of suitable size, is disposed in the bore of the revoluble element and engaged with and serves to connect the bearing hooks 7. A pin 14.- which extends transversely through the spool also extends through the said spring to connect the latter to the revoluble element so that when the revoluble element is turned in one direction by the unwinding of a cord 16 which it attached thereto, the said spring becomes woundand when the tension of the cord is relaxed the said spring serves to rotate the revoluble element in the reverse direction.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 3, 1908.

Patented Oct. 20, 1908.

Serial No. 424,963.

The cord passes through the eye 6 of the handle, said eye serving as a guide element for the cord and in practice the latter is provided at its outer surface or free end with a suitable button` or other stop device to .prevent it from slipping through said guide.

Initially the cord is maintained in a wound condition upon the drum or revoluble element by the action of the spring. In the operation of the toy or tick-tack, the handle is grasped by one hand, the roughened edges of the heads of the revoluble element or drum are caused to bear against a surface, such as a pane of glass in a window and the cord is then drawn out rapidly by the other hand in such manner as to cause the drum to rapidly revolve and thereby by reason of its engagement with such glass pane or other surface make the desired sound. The volume and extent of the sound may be increased or diminished by pressing the heads of the drum or revoluble element against the pane or other surface with the requisite degree of force.

I do not desire to limit myself to the precise construction and arrangement of devices herein shown and described, as it is evident that modifications may be made therein within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is zl. A toy of the class described comprisinga handle made of wire bent to form a handhold, a guide element at the inner end of said hand-hold and a pair of arms at said` inner end of the hand-hold and provided with inwardly extending hooks, a drum having a bore receiving said hooks and further provided with roughened peripheral portions, a spring in said bore engaged with said hooks and connected at an intermediate portion to said drum, said spring being coiled when the drum is rotated in one direction and a cord passed through the guide element of the handle, attached to said drum and wound on said drum in the required direction to cause said drum to coil said spring when said cord is uncoiled or unreeled from said drum.

2. A toy of the class described comprising a handle having a pair of arms provided with inwardly extending hooks, a drum having a bore receiving seid hooks and further'. 'szud oord e'unooled or unreeled from Said 1f? provided with roughened peripheral porv drum.

tions, a spring in said bore engaged With 1n testmonywhereof I afHX my signature said hooks and connected at an intermediate n presence of tWo Witnesses.

5 portion to said drum said spring beno coiled When the drum is, rotated in one dred VILLIAM H DAVIS v tion and a cord attached to said drum and Witnesses: Wound thereon 1n the requlred dlreotlon to DANIEL R. FLUHARTY, Cause smd drum to coll seld sprmg When LEON DILL. 

